The Amistad

Hollywood offers lessons to get ahead in work, said film producer Bonnie Curtis. Take the scene from “Apollo 13,” one of her productions, in which NASA workers scramble to decrease the level of carbon dioxide in a manned spacecraft. “They have to figure out how to put a square peg in a round hole. That’s what I do every day,” Curtis said during the “Work Like a ____” talk, part of Chicago Ideas Week, on Wednesday at Thorne Auditorium. “In filmmaking, you’re really just problem solving constantly.” Curtis, a 25-year industry veteran, including much work with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, offered tips for problem solving based...

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